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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!zip.eecs.umich.edu!niagara.eecs.umich.edu!khushro From: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Virtual memory problems with 386BSD --> NetBSD Date: 14 May 1993 20:32:41 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 56 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1t0vl9$384@zip.eecs.umich.edu> Reply-To: khushro@niagara.eecs.umich.edu (Khushro Shahookar) NNTP-Posting-Host: niagara.eecs.umich.edu I had switched by overwriting the 386BSD default partitions (as made by Tiny BSD) with NetBSD. NetBSD asked for the amount of swapspace to create, and I specified 75MB, thinking I will never have to worry about it again. Now I find that the NetBSD swapspace is only 5 Mb, whereas disklabel shows the b partition to be 75MB as I had specified. I am using the NEW NetBSD kernel. Questions: Did NetBSD overwrite both the 386BSD root and swap partitions? If not, where is the 386BSD swap in the current disklabel? How do I fix this (without rebuilding the kernel if possible)? Has anyone else used TinyBSD to create the UNIX partition for NetBSD? Is your swapspace what you expect it to be? ------------------------ vmstat procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr ?0 ?1 ?2 ?3 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 3996 828 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 112 53 13 2 3 95 danube# disklabel /dev/sd0c # /dev/sd0c: type: SCSI disk: DEC label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 57 tracks/cylinder: 14 sectors/cylinder: 798 cylinders: 2570 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 6 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 14336 204800 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 256*- 274*) b: 153600 219136 swap # (Cyl. 274*- 467*) c: 1843200 204800 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 256*- 2566*) d: 2050860 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2569) e: 409600 372736 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 467*- 980*) f: 1265664 782336 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 980*- 2566*) -- Copyright KHUSHRO SHAHOOKAR, $0.02 khushro@eecs.umich.edu Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor